Walking

Warm sunshine and pairs of walking entrepreneurial ladies deep in conversation. There are smiles and a buzzing energy despite the strong heat as women running their own businesses participate in this Walk Coach Learn networking walk run on behalf of Enterprise Steps. Walking is a powerful ingredient of this networking event. Walking gives a natural high …

Today we walk together against proposed cuts to school budgets. It is a protest that mobilises even those of us that have not marched before. Children, parents and school staff meet at schools across our borough of Tower Hamlets to create signs. We march from our school to the Big Assembly in Mile End Park …

This thing is an Arduino board. It’s used to take sensory readings from its environment such as sound or air quality. A group of us with Arduino boards balanced in our palms were lead by David Hunter through central London recording data from our walk as part of the TCCE Inside Out Festival. We also had …

May brings clement weather, flowers, blossom, longer evenings and light. May is also National Walking Month and a time to get out and engage with the wonders of walking. Living Streets, the charity for every day walkers, encourages us to walk for 20 minutes daily for National Walking Month. Get walking by sharing your shoes …

‘We need to make walking sexy’ declared Will Norman, London’s enthusiastic first commissioner for Walking and Cycling, at the Living Streets Walking Summit. Walking doesn’t have to be pedestrian and can be the most exciting way to explore a city. This buzzy event brought together a whole spectrum of walking enthusiasts and campaigners to discuss how …

Walking is a way of life. It permeates our every day and can be life giving. This walk was for the end of life, a funeral walk in Greece for my mother-in-law who died suddenly this month. As is custom in Greece my mother-in-law returned to her house in an open coffin to be visited …

Street Wisdom changed how I interact with streets and understand what is possible with mindfulness and walking in an urban environment. We imagine that we need to venture into deep countryside or a beauty spot abroad to find an environment conducive to reflection and discovery. David Pearl, Street Wisdom’s founder, shows us that this can …

After three days unconscious, my Granny finally let go and stopped breathing. My Mum, aunt and I had spent those days together with her and her husband. We wore the same clothes all week, slept on the floor of my Granny’s living room and survived on tea and biscuits, gin and crisps and hospital fried …

Spa Farm, Northamptonshire on a week day morning in January. (Escaping London) Impressions: Flat land, distant horizons, blue sky, stillness, peace, buzzing tractors. Woods, occasional walkers, a lost Ocado van, a jogger. Hay bales, farm house, long track, mud, trees, shadows. Question: What do you want to grow more of in your life? This could be a …